Square-Enix’s Sleeping Dogs is back at #1 in this week’s UK chart. This is likely to be down to word of the game’s greatness still spreading, and Tesco has already dropped the price to £24.47. It’s a new entry at #2 – PC add-on The Sims 3: Supernatural. At #3 it’s New Super Mario Bros. …
Mobile games are released at such an unrelenting rate, that I don’t generally find pre-release coverage very helpful. If I can’t click through and buy it immediately, then there’s every chance I’ll have forgotten about it by the time it’s released. But it’s been a pretty lovely week for announcements. Rayman Jungle Run Everyone loves …
Sega working with Activision sounds like an odd pairing, but it’s one that has happened – virtual pet Wappy Dog was developed by Sega Toys and is being published by Activision on Nintendo DS this week. Using the DS software that’s included it’s possible to play mini-games and teach the plastic pup new tricks. £49.99 …
The amount of games in my ‘to play’ pile is ridiculous, so you’d think that a RPG would be the last thing I’d touch in order to whittle that pile down. I was however told that Venetica is a short game. Turns out that’s not strictly true – at around 20 hours it’s only a …
High Moon Studio’s Dark of the Moon tie-in was far from being the best Transformers game ever, but neither was it the worst. Proving that all experience is good experience, when playing Fall of Cybertron it’s easy to get the impression that they have managed to learn a few things from it. Namely, putting a …
We’re still waiting for D3 Publishing to confirm a UK release for WayForward’s Zelda-like Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d you steal our garbage?! To make that wait even more antagonising, at PAX it was confirmed that there’s a collector’s edition planned. The collector’s edition will be available for both the 3DS and DS version …
The anticipated Guild Wars 2 has managed to ‘do the business’ for NCsoft, arriving at #1 in the UK chart. It’s the first PC game to go straight to the top spot since Football Manager 2011 back in November 2010. Sleeping Dogs moves down to #2. Then at #3 it’s New Super Mario Bros. 2, …
There’s every change that you’ve already been convinced by others of the merits of Thirty Flights of Loving. But if not, here are six good reasons to bloody well buy the thing: It’s interesting. More interactive short story than game, it requires no gaming skill to speak of, just that you be intrigued enough to …
Well, here’s a news story that we hoped we’d never have to write. After twenty years of existence under various different guises – including Super Play and N64 Magazine – Future Publishing’s Nintendo Gamer, as it’s currently known, is to end next month. The final issue will be with subscribers within the next week or …
This year has been full of surprises, but none have been more pleasant than Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. The first episode proved that the point-and-click adventure genre still has plenty of untapped potential – had this series been handled differently, we don’t think it would have ended up being as tense or as exciting. …
For a third week running we’re being treated to a handful of incredibly strong releases. Considering it’s the typically quiet summer period, this is most peculiar. Pleasing, but peculiar. Madden NFL 13 isn’t one that’ll interest many in the UK, but the Madden games do usually at least chart quite highly for a week or …
Our four part ‘forgotten heroes’ series draws to a close, but you may have noticed that this one is different from the rest. Rather than focus on Nintendo’s forgotten heroes we decided just to look at those from the N64 era. It’s a system that we don’t talk about much on Games Asylum, even though …
Even with three days of extra sales behind it, Darksiders II hasn’t been able to dislodge Sleeping Dogs from the top of the chart. We’d imagine that THQ are pretty happy with it entering at #2, though. New Super Mario Bros. 2 drops from #2 to #3, then at #4 it’s London 2012: The Official …
Sony has released a list of the PSone Classic games that’ll be playable on PS Vita following today’s v1.80 firmware update. You can view it on the PlayStation Blog here. It’s an impressive list. There are plenty of classics – including Crash Bandicoot, WipEout, Abe’s Exoddus, Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil 2 – and also …
If you purchased a Nintendo DS at launch then Zookeeper should be a game that’s familiar to you. It launched alongside the handheld in all three territories and, Super Mario 64 DS aside, it was one of the few games launch games worth buying. Ping Pals, The Urbz and Sprung: The Dating Game weren’t quite …
